[yocto] Yocto weekly bug trend charts -- WW11

[Darren Hart]

On 03/19/2012 01:18 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 10:13 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
>> On 03/19/2012 09:18 AM, Stewart, David C wrote:
>>>> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>>>> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Xu, Jiajun
>>>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 8:33 AM
>>
>>>> BTW, when I check the open bug data, I find that a new variable is introduced
>>>> with new bugzilla for field "severity" - janitors. We do not include the bugs
>>>> marked as janitors in "Yocto Weekly Open bug Trend(Severity)". My thinking
>>>> is that janitors is similar with enhancement. We could treat it as
>>>> enhancement(with weight value "0"), or if we think it should be included into
>>>> WDD, we could set a weight value for it. How do you think of it?
>>>> Fortunately, we only have 4 bugs marked as janitors, and they are all new
>>>> reported last week. We could simply update the bug trend once we make the
>>>> decision.
>>>
>>> I suggest we make the janitor severity the same as low in the WDD calculation.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know what "low" would map to. The key says:
>>
>> "The weight we use for each severity: Critical:10, Major:7, Normal:5,
>> Minor:3, Enhancement:0 "
>>
>> In my view, Janitors should be marked the same as Enhancement, 0. If a
>> bug is important enough to track and impact release, it shouldn't be a
>> janitors bug, which by definition are intended to sit in a pool for
>> new-comers and irregular contributors to pick up.
> 
> I did talk briefly with Dave earlier and it was hard to decide whether
> these were minor or enhancement in nature. Enhancements are about adding
> new functionality, bugs of whatever severity are about issues in
> existing features. Janitor class issues could be in either category so
> you can argue this both ways from that perspective.
> 
> Did we end up deciding to have a janitor user to assign these too in the
> end or are they going to remain with various people until assigned? If
> the latter, I'd hate to see the WDD being skewed against people due to
> high numbers of janitor bugs so that might sway my argument.

Last I spoke with Michael (added to CC), the plan was to assign these to
a default "Yocto Janitor" id. Unfortunately, we don't have a way to set
this up for automatic assignment like we do for "component owner", as
Janitor bugs are currently identified by severity.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel